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Cape buffalo
Syncerus caffer
Mammals ยท Near threatened
vs
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Cheetah
Acinonyx jubatus
Carnivores ยท Vulnerable

2 clips name both of them

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Cape buffalo outweighs Cheetah 13ร— โ€” 646 kg against 50.6 kg. Both figures are averages across males and females.

To scale

Grid at 50 cm

50 cm
1 m
1.5 m
2 m

Silhouettes: PhyloPic โ€” Jan A. Venter, Herbert H. T. Prins, David A. Balfour & Rob Slotow (vectorized by T. Michael Keesey) (CC BY); others CC0.

Cape buffalo
1.35 m
at the shoulder
Human
1.70 m
full standing height
for scale
Cheetah
0.80 m
at the shoulder
Tale of the tape
Body mass
646 kg
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo ยท COMBINE
51 kg
๐Ÿ† Cheetah ยท COMBINE
Shoulder height
1.35 m
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo
0.8 m
๐Ÿ† Cheetah
Body length
2.96 m
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo ยท COMBINE
1.49 m
๐Ÿ† Cheetah ยท COMBINE
Top speed
55 km/h
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo
104 km/h
๐Ÿ† Cheetah
Bite force
no figure yet
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo
472 N
๐Ÿ† Cheetah
Maximum lifespan
30 yr
๐Ÿƒ Cape buffalo ยท COMBINE
20 yr
๐Ÿ† Cheetah ยท COMBINE

Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures. Bite force figures come from individual studies and vary a lot between sources.

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Shared ancestry

The closest group they share is Laurasiatheria (superorder), home to 4,193 species.

They last shared an ancestor about 64 million years ago.

Estimates range from 58 to 76 million years; the figure above is the middle estimate.

About this estimate

Dates from Upham, Esselstyn & Jetz 2019, PLoS Biology 17:e3000494 (CC0).